“Jay alek el door ya doctor” In 2011, it all began when schoolchildren in Deraa (in the far south of Syria), inspired by the uprisings in other Arab countries, dared to dream of the tyrant of Damascus stepping down—Bashar al-Assad. Ironical slogans blossomed on the...

At the end of June 2014, I traveled to Palestine for the second time, less than nine months after having to interrupt my previous trip to see my father before he died. Little did I know that just a few days after my arrival, a new war would break out. Here is my...

In 2013 I traveled to Palestine for the first time. I didn’t know anyone there, but I had prepared the trip as an initiatory journey into a colonial reality I’d read extensively about in books and articles and watched in countless documentaries. Stepping beyond the...